Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley is a senior writer at SiliconANGLE covering Startups, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things. Duncan is a co-founder of VC funded media company B5Media and founder of news site The Inquisitr, and was a senior writer at TechCrunch in its earlier days. Tips? Press releases? Intersting startup? email: duncan@nichenet.com.au or contact Duncan on Twitter @duncanriley

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Cybersecurity startup Halcyon raises $50M to develop its cyber resilience platform

Cybersecurity startup Halcyon Tech Inc. today announced that it has raised $50 million in new funding to accelerate the development of its cyber resilience platform. SYN Ventures led the Series A round, with Dell Technologies Capital and Corner Ventures also participating. Including the new round, Halycon has raised $70 million to date, according to data from ...

Thanks to Elon Musk’s electric car price war, Tesla reports lower-than-expected revenue

Shares in Tesla Inc. dropped by over 6% in late trading after the electric car and solar panel maker reported slightly lower-than-expected revenue and earnings in its fiscal first quarter. For the quarter that ended March 31, Tesla reported adjusted earnings per share of 85 cents on revenue of $23.33 billion. Analysts were expecting 86 ...

Shares in F5 drop on lower-than-expected guidance and layoffs

Shares in F5 Inc. dropped in late trading today after the application security firm announced layoffs and reported lower-than-expected guidance. The multicloud security and application delivery firm did, however, top estimates in its latest quarterly earnings report. For its fiscal second quarter, F5 reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of $154 million, or $2.53 per ...

New GitHub tools help project integrity and security of the software supply chain

Microsoft Corp.-owned GitHub today announced two new tools aimed at helping developers ensure the integrity of their projects and secure the software supply chain. The first new tool, private vulnerability reporting, is now generally available and designed to help open-source maintainers and security researchers embrace best practices to report and fix vulnerabilities. The private collaboration channel ...

Cequence Security welcomes HP Pathfinder and Prosperity7 as new investors

Application programming interface security startup Cequence Security Inc. announced today that Hewlett-Packard Pathfinder and Prosperity7 Ventures have made strategic investments in the company. Founded in 2014, Cequence offers a scalable software platform designed to protect customers’ web, mobile and API applications from malicious bot attacks. The platform offers web and runtime API visibility, security risk monitoring and behavioral ...

New Dell zero-trust ecosystem brings together 30 companies for unified cybersecurity

Dell Inc. announced today that it is building a zero-trust security ecosystem that brings together more than 30 leading technology and security companies to create a unified solution across infrastructure platforms, applications, clouds and services. The new ecosystem seeks to address the challenge of implementing the seven pillars of zero trust. Dell argues that though ...

New CrowdStrike XDR service unifies human expertise with AI-powered automation and threat intelligence

Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced a new managed extended detection and response service that unifies human expertise with AI-powered automation and threat intelligence. CrowdStrike Falcon Complete XDR, built on the company’s Falcon platform, includes 24/7 expert management, threat hunting, monitoring and end-to-end remediation across all key attack surfaces to close the cybersecurity skills gap. With human expertise ...

Data stolen from CommScope in ransomware attack released on dark web

Data stolen from network infrastructure provider CommScope Holding Co. Inc. has been published on the dark web, the shady corner of the internet reachable through special software, following a successful ransomware attack. The first anyone became aware that CommScope had been targeted was when the Vice Society ransomware gang published the stolen data on their ...

Cybersecurity solutions and services provider SpecterOps raises $25M

Cybersecurity solutions and services provider Specter Ops Inc. today announced that it has raised $25 million in new funding to accelerate the adoption of its BloodHound Enterprise product and expand research and development initiatives. SpectorOps, as it prefers to be called, was founded in 2017 with the belief that “only with true knowledge of how ...

New Salesforce capabilities help government agencies modernize their services

Salesforce Inc. today announced new capabilities and compliance certifications across Customer 360 for Public Sector that help government agencies modernize their services. The new capabilities leverage Salesforce’s customer relationship management tools, artificial intelligence, automation and data tools to help government agencies boost staff productivity, reducing costs and improving outcomes. The new release includes prebuilt, government-specific capabilities ...